Desisted is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DESISTED in dictionary:

VERB:
• DESIST, to cease doing something
• stop doing something; cease or abstain

Words related to DESISTED

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How to use DESISTED in a sentence

• Next, with twenty-eight sail they attacked Fort William, in which there were only fifty men, and after a contest of three hours, they desisted, and left the Province.
• Keeping these as a cover for their retreat, the rebels got clear away, the soldiers having desisted from firing the moment the women appeared.
• Godfrey knew that when his father spoke he must obey, and he therefore desisted from the contemplated attack.
• The natives attempted to cross to him, shouting loudly as they advanced, but when halfway over they desisted and slowly returned.
• At last he desisted and set about searching his prison for some other means of escape.
• They chased him to the very foot of the cliffs, and desisted only when he had been joined by the workmen at the foot of the ladder-way up the cliff.
• But after a few casts she desisted, and took her rod to pieces slowly.
• After a vain attempt to force an entrance by means of his Asiatic allies, Severus desisted from his undertaking.
• On my last interview with him, I found him lying on a mat with so high a fever that I dared not urge the matter further, and we desisted from our efforts to secure him.
• Someone tried the handle of the door, pulled at it and desisted.
• But there was a general murmur of war-inflamed suspicion, and I desisted and fled.
• Ere she desisted, Dutton had left the room, and discovered the words in an old Annual on a top shelf in the library.
• He longed to question Bramshaw, but desisted, determined to await future developments.
• At last he desisted, wiping dry the soft girlish throat as tenderly as a nurse might wipe the throat of a baby.
• Perhaps he had desisted then had not the man struggled and fought back.
• They thought that I was swearing, and desisted for fear that I should injure their ancestors.
• This double attack disconcerted the enemy in such a manner, that they soon desisted from all opposition.
• Lord Cornwallis now desisted from the pursuit, and put his division into winter-quarters, between the Delaware and the Hakensack.
• The old women, for the first time in their lives, ceased coughing, and the old men desisted from spitting.
• Ferrers became immediately very reserved, and the Consul desisted.
• They only desisted from this enterprise when some of their number were killed.
• From this custom, however, they desisted after the publication of my edict, by which, according to your commands, I forbade the meeting of any assemblies.
• He had such fertility of objections that Miss Trifle was at last tired, and desisted from all attempts for our accommodation.
• Garcia they desisted upon payment of 20 pesos and the agreement that 100 pesos would be paid later.
• But they desisted in a great measure from the assault on our arrival, yet continued to throw in perpetual showers of arrows, darts, and stones.
• We desisted for the present, and returned to our former post in search of water, our men and horses having been unable to procure any during the whole of this day.
• The Tuscans, checked by the alarm thus occasioned, desisted.
• She would only answer with a laugh, which grated so harshly on his ear that he finally desisted, and suffered her to think he was her cousin.
• And presently the jovial gentleman desisted from his knocking and departed.
• Disappointed in their hope, the Helvetii attempted to force a passage across the Rhone, but, being resisted by the soldier, desisted.
• In the end, out of sheer pity that overcame the strange delight he had in torturing her, he desisted in his appeals and demands and subtle arguments.
• Faringfield remained in her state of deferred curiosity and vague alarm, and so he had desisted.
• They desisted from their shopping, and watched intently the wild savage.

Similar words containing SIST without suffix ed and without prefix de

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